Australia's China Problem

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[13] www.austrade.gov.au/internati...
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[@jakenum30]

As a resident of Alice Springs, I love seeing my town mentioned for something non crime related

[@adamknight5089]

Lol

[@asmodeus235]

You say that, but internet is yet another aspect of Australia fucked over by China. In a trade deal they made with Telstra, they gained a monopoly on infrastructure, rolling out the new ‘NBN’. Turns out we decided to redo our entire system and replace with more copper cables, instead of fibre optic, like America.

[@noihsok8055]

@@asmodeus235 rip, even us kiwis use fibre optic cables for internet

[@sebbyh9764]

@@asmodeus235 Lol our internet is worse than Romania's

[@plasmaoc]

@@sebbyh9764 5G will be our savior

[@martinhavenga9519]

The down votes are actually up votes from Australia

[@martiddy]

I understood the reference

[@SimpWhiper]

I will never See the downvote Button the Same lol

[@thermalreboot]

Now that's funny.

[@CharalamposKoundourakis]

@@martiddy Good for you?

[@maiden5427]

😂😂😂 what a legend

[@unluckytourist]

It's interesting. The video doesn't mention Hobart, the capital city of the state of Tasmania. I bring it up because despite being the smallest state and only having a population of a quarter million, it's geographically the same size as England, resource rich and all arable.

[@S0LUT10N]

England’s a bit bigger than tassie

[@rollei35mm]

That's because Tassie is an afterthought, basically never impacts the rest of the country

[@royalwolf9926]

The act is the smallest state champion

[@Zarafin]

So it could hold more than 20 million people easily?

[@richlisola1]

Maybe New England?

[@markusgardner9312]

"China mocked Australian president" I think the general population does that aswell

[@richardgoh8725]

I guess it is no fun to be an Australian Prime Minister. Everybody loves a pop shot at him.

[@Aquarium-Downunder]

What President? it's Prime Minster and that guy was a total wanker

[@Efflorescentey]

Especially ScoMo… he was an idiot 😂

[@Doogsa-dl8sc]

@@richardgoh8725 because he is a puppet of the monarchy same as Canada's dunce.

[@willkirsch6976]

"Australia is definitely not a superpower" This man has clearly never played Risk

[@HonorViego]

Will Kirsch LOL I LOVE THIS COMMENT

[@kpreilly]

Australia is very much so an Asia-Pacific geographical superpower

[@ShiftJay08]

@@kpreilly superpower lmao

[@indulf5271]

Australia is OP, pls nerf.

[@cathymartens7478]

@@HonorViego me too😃😃

[@canneddinners6059]

So this video wasn't made possible by Skillshare? I'm uncomfortable

[@Andrew_Kohn]

lolololololol

[@wanja-]

😂😂🤪

[@zachwallis5770]

Benjamin Michael von Lichtenwald #FuckShopify

[@EthanRKassel]

No Skillshare AND no planes!

[@dn2350]

🤣🤣

[@grizzlednerd4521]

Funny story...I worked in the Australian higher education sector when the pandemic started. Not so many international students after that, resulting in a huge funding issue for our universities. The fact of the matter is that, for a lot of international students, Australia's lifestyle and social stabiltiy was part of the attraction. That's not such a big deal with remote-based education.

[@Doogsa-dl8sc]

You didn't mention the money they can make working.

[@PotofGlue]

“Australia is definitely not a superpower” Sam’s apparently never played tf2

[@bIeakk]

@@jeremywillis7234 wdym bro speak English

[@j.carter6449]

@God and a bunch of spiders

[@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477]

New Zealand : HEY WHAT ABOUT ME

[@saulgoodman758]

what does titanfall have anything to do with australia

[@martinagnew7508]

@@rtfire7177 nah yeah nah. About as many as the foreign students and we treated them I'm ashamed to say worse than the Cannuks treated the Inuits or the Sepo's treated the Indians.

[@W0rmhandler]

Even China's got a China problem at this point.

[@SweetMattieG]

"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide." -China

[@MrKadvaga]

en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Romance_of_the_Three_Kingdoms

[@eugeneng7064]

@@SweetMattieG It's been united for only 70 years. Most dynasties that unite China run for 300-ish. And by Beijing and Taipei's official stance, it is actually not completely united.

[@SweetMattieG]

@@eugeneng7064 And the last government lasted 37 years. The CCP has a ways to go before it's fully stable. Probably after they transition to a period where they stop floating their economy with real estate developments that no one will ever live in.

[@eugeneng7064]

@@SweetMattieG The Chinese economy's growth is largely fueled by consumption since 2016? Sure they have a shit tonne of political problems, economically they're starting to become more mature.

[@Lelacjer]

Australia: we like western ideals of freedom and prosperity! China: no you don’t Australia: no we don’t!

[@stevencooper4422]

New Zealand is just building tanks out of tractors on the side.

[@Haske0]

Freedom? Maybe. Prosperity? Hell no. Here in Canada we the middle working class get taxed like no tomorrow to support the 1%.

[@vincy958]

@@stevencooper4422 Ha! As a kiwi that cracked me up.

[@abandonedchannel281]

I mean, China is economically speaking is prosperous nation so prosperity isn’t that big of a issue.

[@dannyn.6933]

Well.. to be fair China has prosperity. It's 1st or 2nd largest economy in the world (2nd nominal, 1st PPP) and still has great growth rates. Freedom? Not even remotely...

[@duddledeedo]

I died a little when he said "irregardless" at 11:05.

[@pawwilon]

Was looking for a comment. Even looked up merriam webster for my owm sanity #sad

[@BairMendoza]

Gretchen Weiners was his English Teacher.

[@regolith1350]

Ha! Me too!

[@Jhulinare]

I said that same word in front of an english teacher, she told me that I shouldn't use that word. It's not correct, or something. Come to find out it's just an 'improper' word. Still a word.

[@banjopete]

Death by a thousand cuts.

[@NickFoxer]

This video definitely has flavors of the book "The Accidental Super power", which I highly recommend.

[@gcb4763]

Australia is more comparable to Canada - another vast, affluent, mineral-rich, English-speaking countries and has the same Head of State.

[@100cents5]

No legal weed :(

[@likeone12]

Good joke

[@r-labs9357]

Australia and New Zealand are a lot like Canada

[@StanbyMode]

@@likeone12 ?

[@mohammedgharbiyah6566]

And a common motherland! Unite the Anglosphere and bring together CANZUK! 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿

[@allpowertothepeople3737]

"What the country definitely is not, though, is a superpower." _Shows stock footage of kangaroos hopping_

[@plasmaoc]

Yeah look kangaroos are the most suicidal animal I know. It is like they see a 3 tonne land whale coming and go. Ooh let's just stand in the middle of the road..

[@Delta040301]

We also fought a war against the emus. It did not go very well.

[@viper7526]

@@Delta040301Australia's the only country who could lose a war against emus

[@enricobianchi4499]

@@viper7526 Australia's the only country with emus

[@jactrich]

3rror200 he’s American he doesn’t know anything outside of North America they are not that bright. You will see it a lot so you’ll have to give them some leniency towards their incredible ignorance

[@latenightlogic]

That enormous period of continuous growth can largely be attributed to the former Prime Minister Paul Keating. A political juggernaut.

[@dama301]

And Bob Hawke just as much if not more

[@snuggles03]

Thank you for featuring Australia and its relationship with China, but this video did not even scratch the surface, and provided no analysis of the “China problem”..Australian politicians have tried to reach out to Chinese government officials for two years and have been ignored by those Chinese officials. What your video did show is the need for Australia to have a diverse economic interaction with other countries other than China

[@Rohv]

Update as of the 3rd week of July: Australia has openly taken sides in the South China Sea maritime dispute, and has sided against China.

[@comingviking]

That was kinda dumb. Like, really DUMB.

[@pepsigasm1015]

China medical team in Uganda 20th, ok.

[@AP-jl2lv]

the only thing that matters is that on July 13, 2020 the US Navy decided to officially reject all chinese claims to the south china sea. thank god for trump, hilary wouldve appeased them to the point of territorial expansion that will be what saves australia, war is coming soon.

[@comingviking]

@@AP-jl2lv And who is Trump to even have an opinion in the matter of the South China Sea? It is called the South CHINA Sea for a reason.

[@saintclarus]

@@comingviking What about countries like Mauritius in the Indian Ocean? They aren't Indian.

[@Dcc357]

They're also the largest producer of eggs because HowToBasic lives there.

[@GG-nq4qf]

That makes them the largest destroyer of eggs

[@nerowulfee9210]

So thats why he is so insane...

[@nan0fx]

you mean consumer gosh

[@daviddonnelly585]

I like eggs

[@theseeker7194]

Can anybody please tell the name of the background music from 2:26 to 4:14 ? Thanks in advance🙂

[@fredsmith-kingofthelunatic7810]

If you ignore the "America No.1" bullsh't at the start, the rest of the video is really quite spot on.

[@aluisious]

The definition of irregardless is "regardless." Just say regardless.

[@zeyucheung8261]

No it’s regard

[@chl_ca]

then let's just stop using synonyms altogether

[@themangleberry8772]

Kind regards,

[@aluisious]

@@chl_ca it's an antonym, except it's not

[@lachlankeddie7]

Omg Wendover has lost it. I can't believe this... A whole video with no aviation whatsoever...

[@Steamrick]

Yes, I was very suprised he didn't even mention them when going into Australia's Isolation. It would've been easy.

[@JQNick]

I'll fix that.. Alice Springs is a 2 hour flight to pretty much anywhere else in the country

[@billyhatcher643]

dude he covers lots of topics without aviation

[@stevencooper4422]

Sad music playing too :(

[@theseeker7194]

Can anybody please tell the name of the background music from 2:26 to 4:14 ? Thanks in advance🙂

[@sirloaf9374]

'Australia has had 28 years without a recession' Covid-19: hey

[@FrankHorriganFallout2]

Sir Loaf Australians: Oh Hey! Australians: ......... Oh look at the time! I need lunch! COVID: No, No stay (I am a Aussie)

[@dylanhuntly3517]

actually its the result of poor management by the party currently in power.

[@FrankHorriganFallout2]

Dylan Huntly what you mean? And are you Aussie?

[@Slavicplayer251]

Sneezy- Boi you don’t need to be Aussie to know that the liberals can’t manage shit (I’m half Aussie) also Covid-19:hey Western Australia: Fuck you mate

[@luqmanulhakimbincheabdulha7974]

get the latest lego helicopter and rescue the survivor

[@TahirAli-sq6qp]

Wendover Productions Documentaries are really good, Objective, well researched, excellent presentations, thank you guys for your knowledge and top notch research.

[@nicekamel8109]

Where was this channel all my life!!! Can’t stop watching your videos!

[@michi-dl5sm]

New Zealand made the right move to block any purchasing on its land

[@afiyakemarafa4009]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nelsonferrer8994]

Salute to new Zealanders for respecting your nation and yourselves. I'm a Filipino and I wish that our society and government will act like you someday

[@jimandy9472]

Would have been an excellent move 15 years ago!! lil to late now eh

[@bikosteve8864]

They also blocked Huawei from building their 5G infrastructure

[@mangjose5446]

@@bikosteve8864 5gs are to dangerous. maybe thats why.. or also because of spying issues of china.

[@user-cq5sn5hq4m]

*Australia* : _we have minerals_ *China* : _I need your clothes, boots and motorcycle_

[@nevermorelilzkie275]

why they need those when they can produce them?

[@stevesalzano942]

Bad to the bone!

[@DrRock2009]

Just watched that film last night...

[@blacktothefuture3870]

Terminator

[@thewanderingeuropean3522]

Fuck China

[@dbo789]

“Too much reliance on any economy, no matter how strong economy may be, is a risky strategy.” *Laughs in Canadian*

[@Oskar0424]

Please do a video on the geography of the Middle East. You could also probably talk about how its geography makes it a transit hub for the world

[@socialistether6788]

"Australia is definitely not a superpower", tell that to our native fauna.

[@123mickymouse123]

Australia is a classically isolated, island ecological system. As such it's very vulnerable despite the common image of dangerous animals and all that (plus the major mammals and other animals died quite some time ago, possibly due to humans). All of this means Australia's flora and fauna is getting fucked over by climate change, habitat loss, fragmentation, bad government policies (yay conservatives :P), and invasive species.

[@asdrubaelvect8038]

Yup 100% conservatives at fault with everything, at all times regardless of the issue.

[@user-ct9tc4lw9h]

Umm they are the only country that’s army lost to actual animals

[@sonicmeerkat]

Tell that to the emus.

[@DarkOkie]

Come on guys that was 1000's of Emu vs like 15 guys with muskets

[@gabo4850]

That title looks and sounds like an ai generated wendover productions video title

[@morriskaller3549]

You know the reason why this channel can pump out so many videos such a rapid pace? All videos after 2016 are AI generated

[@unturnedhelper3495]

Basically

[@Weirdude777]

@Stanley Daniels australia is just Chile done right: shitload of valuable minerals exported to China, close political- cultural ties to the US and Europe, fairly continuous economic growth for decades, and so on.

[@gabo4850]

@@Weirdude777 that's cool but we have better wine. Priorities

[@Weirdude777]

@@gabo4850 ah sí 1oo%

[@markanderson3870]

I always thought Australia had more in common with Canada than the US.

[@thejword4279]

We escaped recession because of Rudd's good financial management.

[@dama301]

Shame he couldn’t do anything else well

[@Philsta007]

Nah, Howard.

[@SMunro]

"Chinese media mocks australian prime minister." Hah! So do Australians.

[@pinkgoergefloyd8340]

Fuck him

[@kryts27]

This is the heart of the problem. A free media may mock a leader for his mediocrity and shallowness (this is fundamentally Morrison), whereas a dictator may not be mocked at the behest of your own livelihood or even life. That is seriously f**ked up. For the free and brave at heat, the only solution is revolution.

[@biponacci]

J K Australia produces raw materials though, China could just turn around and buy from anyone else.

[@joeyyang580]

Xi poo show me on this doll how much the Chinese have hurt you.

[@xr9381]

Xi poo u can hate CCP, but u have no right to criticise eating dog

[@aspenlovelock8115]

Thank you for talking about this, it’s no secret here in Australia that we are slowly becoming a puppet state of China. In fact when a book was being published about this issue, despite having gained media attention before release 4 publishers refused to publish it out of fear of China. 1 of them has never sold a book in China.

[@khadrockslol]

So true, we do not even have the opportunity to criticise Communist China on our own land.

[@thoughtpolice2191]

Layla it’s fucked

[@preciousjose]

@@khadrockslol your own land? When did Australia become white man's land? You killed and looted the natives and now have the nerve to call it your land.

[@steves9388]

@@preciousjose See below. Meet face! Nice arse-umption, dingbat.

[@jiaruiyan870]

Layla other than not being able to influence their government, what other freedoms do they not have? Are you also aware to the privileges ethic minorities have in China? Have you ever looked at a Chinese history text book? Lol keep taking in the shit fed by your media. I’m not saying that they are not doing anything bad, but they are not as bad as people think they are when you actually care to look at the whole picture.

[@Warum_Nicht]

America, Australia and Japan must cooperate to solve the China problem!

[@petert3355]

The claim that Australia would be affected by a China/Australia trade war more than China would has not really been shown to be true. Blackouts etc are causing serious issues in China. Australia is just continuing on.

[@BradTN_]

Yeah exactly, all of China's doings have not affected Australia's economy other than Covid which was slight

[@JJAB91]

I wish more of the world would see China as it really is, a paper tiger.

[@mgac1206]

@@BradTN_ bro r u serious? did u not watch the video china has stopped allowing international students over which generates roughly 40 billions dollars a year at its peak, but that figure now has since halved. They are also our biggest exported and importer and without them our economy will become stagnant we are basically useless without them. Right now our economy has yet to even recover from the covid situation and without china it'll be even harder.

[@BradTN_]

@@mgac1206 Australia's economy is more stable than China's. Especially since we've prospered without them. Leaving China behind will promote industrial growth in the homeland and international partners will inevitably replace China in all aspects. China tried coercing us through economic punishment, instead, they hurt themselves and Australia was relatively untouched.

[@nerocityhd9481]

@@BradTN_ if by "stable" you meant "stagnant in the moment china decides so" you nailed it

[@Haveawildguess]

Australia: *manages to go 28 years without a recesison* Coronavirus: I'm about to ruin this man's whole career

[@orsondy3060]

The recession was gonna come anyway due to the libtards

[@megabricksplays8873]

SoL0rson DY not libtards, liberals.Those numbskulls have been screwing up the economy since kingdom Come.

[@TheCambella]

Christ help us with Labor back. Union hacks are not business people.

[@BOOBUFESTUU]

@@TheCambella Yeah better than the business people who only care about them selves and would kill off an entire species for 5k

[@alexmoorcroft9580]

TheCambella neither are the LNP. Difference is labor saved us in the last gfc, libs have fucked us. Good economic managers my ass

[@DavidtheAlbanian-ng5vd]

"Australia would not exist without Amercia" is the most American thing I've ever heard

[@anonb4632]

There are three reasons to say this though (I'm not American by the way): * The loss of the penal colonies (although couldn't Canada have fulfilled this role?) * WWII - the USA was undoubtedly the main opponent to Japan in the Pacific, and probably influenced Japanese attitudes towards Australia. * The Cold War - the south east Asian situation in the sixties and seventies could have easily spilled over into Australia.

[@tomm5663]

Anon B the 1st and 2nd I can kind of see, the last one is utter rubbish. Countries that flip to communism are usually either poor, unstable or aren’t democracies. Australia was none of these.

[@anonb4632]

@@tomm5663 Australia has a very unstable climate and economy, and had a strong history of hard leftism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, so it's not that unlikely.

[@tomm5663]

Anon B our economy is more stable than you would think. Though in this video claims that we survive off of our mineral exports, in reality, most of our gdp is financial services and real estate. We weathered the 2008 gfc while the rest of the western world collapsed. Though we did have somewhat of a hand to play in hard leftism, it was very clearly welfare capitalism, rather than communism or socialism.

[@anonb4632]

@@tomm5663 Financial services and real estate are even more fickle industries than extractive ones. I believe the last global crash was largely down to these.

[@Luck1_]

Really impressed with how this video went so smoothly

[@Robostate]

1:51 I ate with my wife at the restaurant in Washington, DC on the left in 2012. It was Tony Cheng's and I got the Mongolian grill. We ate a lot on that trip.

[@gloomy3501]

I just lost a brain cell while reading your comment. It's either your fault or I suck at life, and my coin is on later

[@cczsus6513]

@@gloomy3501 I understood what he said so ya.

[@eyeofthepyramid2596]

@@gloomy3501 did you read I ate my wife

[@Daniel-mi4er]

After studying at three different universities in Australia in three different cities, international students are starting to become a big problem. They pay approximately five times more in tuition fee's than domestic students, so the uni's put emphasis on international students over domestic students by advertisement, allowing more international students to study at the universities each year, manipulating the campus culture and the grading system. It is incredibly annoying as someone who wants to study and learn more about what I am studying, it gets edited and filtered to get more international students when it could quite easily be changed in the same way just to be a sound education system. The first example is my mum marked hundreds of papers for several years while doing her master's and doctorate which she graduated from earlier this year, and it is incredible the amount of paper's she got which were unintelligible, it was astonishing as to how many were clearly written in another language and then put through Google Translate. Because of this, the universities ask markers to mark to a 60% median. Consequently, students who clearly should not pass, end up passing only because if more than half the students in a course fail, it looks terrible on the university. Even if you do not stick to a 60% median, the university will review your marking once completed and adjust it if it is not at the 60% median. In my opinion, it is a very unethical, dishonest, and illegitimate way of marking university papers. The other issue I have with how the universities function with regards to international students, is they continue to allow more and more to enrol. This results in the culture of the universities changing significantly, because many of the students come from countries which are not politically peaceful like Australia, e.g. China. Consequently, you have protests and fights (in worst-case scenarios) regularly over political issues in other countries, on-campus. I am just trying to learn about psychology, and I would rather my education was not interrupted by protests about issues which do not have any impact or relation to what I am studying, my friends, family, or my country because this is not China or Hong Kong. You are protesting for things which do not exist in Australia, and there is nothing an Australian student can do to help you with the issues you have in your country. The promotion of diversity and international students at the universities also means, the student accommodations on-campus get unfairly overcrowded with international students. I lived on-campus at the Australian National University for one year, and 70-80% of the students in my building were international, and 40-45% had significant trouble speaking English. As a domestic student, it becomes very isolating. I do not have an issue with experiencing other cultures. I am fortunate enough to have travelled a lot for my age, but at the end of the day, my culture is with Australia, as well as my nationality, it is what I am proud to call myself, I prefer to live with Australians as I have for my entire life, if I wanted to live with Chinese people, I would study in China, but Australia is what is familiar to me. If that seems wrong to say to you, I can tell you the Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Hong Kong students do not have a problem with it, they rarely go outside there cultural groups, because it is human nature to find comfort in what we find familiar. I do not know whether these actions are intentional on the universities part, but it certainly comes across that way. Also, I have not written a YT comment in many years, but this video illuminated some issues I have been experiencing over the past four years, and I hope it can offer some insight to others.

[@MrVeersam]

I can agree with you on most of the stuff you have said but being in a developed country and a nation made of immigrants embracing globalisation is good for the economy.

[@jrd33]

We have similar problems here in the UK with foreign students at universities, although not only from China. They are so profitable to the university that it completely warps their priorities towards gaining more foreign students at any cost.

[@theholyasdf3593]

I relate to your post so much and i agree with every single sentence. I went to Usyd and many of the fourth year classes, were 90% chinese students, and maybe 5% Indians and 5% Australians and others. Even the lecturer had a strong Chinese accent. This one of the many reasons why i'm a banana, yellow outside, white inside, i'm of Chinese ancestry but pro-western. Needless to say, I don't dislike Chinese people, some really are just trying to get by and improve their lives, and barely able to do in some of their personal circumstancese, but there's just so many of them at my university.

[@peterlemke3468]

Interesting observations thanks for sharing. The sad fact is most Australian universities are very reliant on international student fees. This helps fund places for local students. It is not healthy that so many international students come from the one country.

[@BobBob-of7fg]

MrVeersam No it isn’t. It just creates a larger pool of workers so companies have more choices and are able to pay less and give less benefits.

[@CaptainAwesome-mz6mt]

"Foreigner gets Australian cities names correct" Hmmm, we shall spare this man

[@djwrox94]

Praise be Ned Kelly! We found one! We finally found one! MAKE THIS FOREIGNER THE NEW PRIME MINISTER!

[@SJokes]

How do people get them wrong? Just asking

[@mautrindade]

but he said irregardless

[@henrikr.822]

@@SJokes Speaking as an ignorant foreigner: something many people don't know ist that you're supppsed to pronounce Melbourne not Mel-BORN but MEL-Bin and Canberra not Can-BER-Ra but CAN-Bra (Or something like that)

[@SJokes]

@@henrikr.822 Ahh okay I see

[@maradona1012]

Australia should stop issuing PRs to PRC citizens. I don't understand why so many PRs are granted to Chinese citizens. Shouldn't there be a quota to prevent certain groups of people from flooding the country?

[@zazper8chickendumplings833]

As a citizen of Australia I would not say our landscapes are the same at all. When the first Europeans came hear they said it was to dry.

[@egg-iu3fe]

yep America is way colder than Australia

[@Jack3md]

⁠@@egg-iu3fe certain parts are, the southern U.S. though is much more similar in weather to Australia

[@Holphana]

the "emptiness" (2 lane road) of Australia is relative to our population. Our roads may sound somewhat pathetic but it's not like we have traffic jams and a real need to change it. More than that, we spend entirely too much on road infustructure. It's a great investment for sure but - again - relative to our population they are just not efficient decisions.

[@Grivian]

He made sure to mention it twice for shock factor because americans can't understand it

[@doomdoomtv316]

Driving thru pennant Hills to get to Coffs harbour is by far the most infuriating thing about this country

[@andrewlucas246]

I think the section on the road network and inland centres is a bit poorly informed and more focused on reinforcing a viewpoint that the australian landscape is too desolate to support life than portraying things accurately. Using alice springs as an example as our largest inland population centre is a strange choice. There are plenty of larger cities that are still plenty far from the coast. Albury wodonga (300km pop 96k), Wagga wagga (350km pop 64k), Bendigo (150km pop 108k) or Toowomba (150km pop 140km). These aren't big population numbers sure but they're in our 20 largest cities. The road that is used in the video to connect all the coastal capital cities is pretty nonsense. While some parts of that route are valid for most part it's a borderline scenic route that links smaller coastal towns. For large portions of the route people would drive inland on higher capacity more direct routes eg the hume from melb to syd and the GEH from Adelaide to Perth. When you consider that so much of our transport is by truck this is to be expected. The point the video tries to make is that Australia and the US are very similar but the desolate nature of Australia's landscape has held it back by comparison. In truth the US and Australia have pretty similar percentages of desert and arid land, you just have a lot more people living in it. The US is a lot older and came into the industrial revolution with pre existing population centres that were evenly spread out over 200 years of pre industrial growth. Australia on the other hand had populations concentrated in a handful of colonies along the east coast from the outset, which just became more dense with people, jobs and opportunities as the country industrialised further. Today Australia has the same population as the US in the 1850s and has lacked the pressure and economic opportunity (aside from mining) since to strongly populate and develop these more isolated areas the same way the US has.

[@FreewayBrent]

Eh, it took me about 90 minutes to drive 40 kilometres during the peak morning hours from Blacktown to North Sydney a couple of weeks ago, slogging along the M7/M2 motorways. It's not all smooth sailing in Australia. Of course, it's not as bad as Los Angeles or Manila (was also there 3 weeks ago), but Australian cities have their traffic issues too.

[@Doogsa-dl8sc]

Well everyone knows the road tax collected at the pump about 70 cents a litre is a scam to feather the beds of corrupt politicians who's connections own all the plant hire companies and all the traffic control companies. More orange traffic control cones in Australia than people. Roadworks in Australia is a rort.

[@kn0bhe4d]

11:04 "irregardless" **eye twitches**

[@aliciadonadio2597]

How was that again? Theres "regardless" and "irrespective"? I thought irregarfless was an invention of the European government politicians...

[@ingusmant]

Was going to comment the same thing

[@denniswatson6622]

It’s a word that people who think they know English well dislike, but it is a word nevertheless.

[@offchance789]

i just use irrespective when i feel like saying irregardless. regardless, irregardless is double negative so its a word but we don't grant you the rank of dictionary word.

[@iKarrott]

@@denniswatson6622 It's a word only because people kept using it incorrectly. It literally means the same thing as regardless. It's an improper word that should not be used in an academic or educational context. From Merriam-webster: "There is such a word, however. It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead." If anything people who defend the word irregardless and fail to mention its lack of legitimacy are the ones who think they know English.

[@JakeLikesTech]

did the KZbin algorithm really think the keynote "Sydney" was a license plate? That's gotta be what it is and that's really funny and sad.

[@Asimov_]

did I just witness an american pronouncing Brisbane right? You sir, have my respect.

[@anonymous_friend]

He said irregardless though...

[@Asimov_]

@Screw youtube for americans it certainly seems to be

[@helmmaster932]

@@Asimov_ that’s right. They say (Mel-Born) and (Bris-Baine). When it’s (Mel-Bun) and (Bris-Ban)

[@raulfuerte5512]

Australia: yeah mate, our huge country is mostly empty and only one road connects the whole country east to west. Canada: I’m listening, amuse me child.

[@davidearea242]

Raul Fuerte - What? Aren't Canadians capable of building a simple road across their nation?

[@anshu89]

David Earea what he means is that even canada is mostly made up of barren snow filled wastelands and most of the population resides in the south closer to the US...but even they have a well developed road network en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads_in_Canada

[@redrainer]

Raul Fuerte I mean no? I can’t actually send an image but just google roads in Australia map to see that Australia is fairly linked up

[@ascensionjusino1847]

@@anshu89 0

[@robertmartin2867]

I'm not clear on why anyone expects us to build big roads through our deserts. Are the feral camels complaining about commute times?

[@moisty254]

Moral of the video: don't put all your eggs in one Chinese basket

[@mikespearwood3914]

Yep, quite alarming how reliant on China, Australia is!

[@bctvanw]

That what Taiwan is trying to do in the past few years.

[@mr.m2659]

But still put a lot in the China basket or you'll get left in the dust

[@sheep.herder]

i agree, rid the country of the masonic club in parliament together with the rothschild usury system of slavery central banking cartel! print money as they do! the reserve b of aust. will tell you otherwise.. the same ones that cleaned out all the gold from our reserves and stopped it to the bank of england without any trace.

[@ParadigmRabbit]

Unless you like your eggs tyrannized and propagandized.

[@swaggydukes4075]

surprising he nailed the pronunciation of brisbane and melbourne

[@Relatablename]

In all honesty the USA and China both have similar shipping times to get here, that being a couple of weeks. However shipping costs $100+ per item from America and essentially nothing from China. A free trade agreement would easily eliminate our dependence on Chinese manufacturing, although America is facing a similar problem itself. The five eyes need to be closer trading partners!

[@jchan9761]

All of the west. Not just five eyes.

[@skadarious1062]

Why didn’t England just send their convicts to Canada?

[@lorenzo4819]

Trudeau didn't want them

[@Versuffe]

No Canada had too much surfers making prisons surf

[@flyallen8165]

Synthesis England only gained much of Canada in the 1760’s after a war involving France (hence the French speaking region of Québec) and the colonisation of Australia began in 1788. As such Canada, with its frozen tundra and the technology of the time was probably quite underdeveloped and not suitable maybe. Could’ve also just been a mix of both to gain territory in the Far East but not sure

[@mysty1e13]

Not even convicts deserve to live in such a place

[@noblevi3623]

At the time, the majority of what was considered Canada was still by and large French speaking colonists from the New France colony. One of the treaties implemented (and that lead to the American Revolution) stipulated that the British Government would, in several important aspects, remain hands off in the public affairs of what was now Canada, at this time the important places being the region of modern day Quebec and Nova Scotia. That treaty guaranteed protections for the huge majority (80%+) of the Canadian population [not counting the first nations, red river, matis, and so on] that were French speaking Catholics. Conversely, British Colonials and convicts were largely English speaking Protestants. A newly conquered Quebec wasn't particularly overjoyed that they were now under British rule. Sending convicts that also weren't happy that they literally got shoved a world away, on top of the cultural and religious barrier between native language and belief. Toss in that the American Revolution was on the way and you've just got a perfect brewing pot for losing the colony to rebellion, revolution, or being conquered by the Americans. Manifest Destiny already cost the British government about 1/2 of the North American investment. Mexico was a pipe dream for the Spaniards. A newly conquered un-assimilated, culturally different and linguistically foreign population had their cooperation being contingent on keeping the locals happy. Keep in mind that the British conquered the French colonies within the life times as Nelson and Napoleon engaged in fisticuffs back in Europe. This is still after centuries of on and off conflict between the British and the French, and now you're telling me you were going to dump British "undesirables" in Canada. Do you WANT to lose the other half of your investment? French remained French. Anything the British did had to stay out of the French's way. The British spent another hundred years after losing the original 13 colonies to the American Revolution treading on eggshells keeping Canada from falling into the hands of Benjamin Franklin's vision of a truly Continental United States. I'd say the British effots were largely successful. Modern day Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world by landmass. And only achieved full autonomy and disconnect from the British Government back in 1982 when the British Government allowed Canada amend their own constitution as they saw fit without passing things by the Governor General (Queen's representative to Canada) first. Canada is still part of the British commonwealth, like Australia, and hasn't expressed any serious interest in fully leaving the crown's domain since.

[@plum_pie6402]

Hell yeah you mentioned Perth and even called us a city! so many docos used to refer to us as a "small country town"

[@cyclonicleo]

Small country town? Wait, this is Perth, don't I know you?

[@samuelchristie570]

Thriving music city

[@funDAYsmiling]

Plum_ Pie I live in Florida, USA, and my uncle Ross (Lightfoot) lives in Perth (he was a federal senator there). I Oz but I love Florida too.

[@liberty0758]

Most likely American docos

[@honeybadger6348]

Nobody lives there! The streets were completely deserted when I went there

[@hamishmcdowall7552]

I am from Brisbane. Australia actually can support more people than it has today. Though water is scarce in the interior, it has a lot of arable land in the Murray-Darling Basin in the southeast of the country. For example, Australia is consistently the no. 6 to no. 10 wheat producer in the world depending on whether there is drought, flooding rains, or good conditions. Australia is also a massive producer of wool, meats, dairy products, fruit, wine, cotton, and sugar. This allows Australia to be easily self-sufficient in terms of food given its small population. In terms of natural resources, Australia only needs to import petroleum and exports pretty much everything else. The small population and high labour costs means manufacturing is not a significant portion of the economy. Though natural resources comprise the majority of Australia's exports, the service industries make up most of the economy and employ the majority of Australians, which is typical of a developed country. The actual reason why Australia has such a small population is because of its geographic isolation from the rest of the world and to a lesser extent past immigration restrictions such as the White Australia Policy. The geographic isolation meant that Australia only came to the civilization game when the British arrived in the late 18th century, meaning Australia had less than 250 years to grow its population and expand its land area. As part of the British Empire, Australia became an export economy where agricultural and mineral goods were exported to Britain in exchange for manufactured goods. This economic outlook continues today due to Australia's small population, just with trade partners changed. The outback of course, cannot support many people, but even less people would be there if it weren't for mining. The outback is a region comprising of most of Australia's iron, gold, and silver reserves with towns such as Mount Isa, QLD, Broken Hill, NSW, and Kalgoorlie, Newman, and Tom Price all in Western Australia reliant on mining. The reason why China is Australia's biggest trading partner is due to how large its market, and industrial base is. Japan and South Korea are reliable trade partners that are close allies with Australia, but they are nowhere near as large as China. The only way for Australia to diversify its trading partners is if other countries in Asia such as India and Indonesia gain large industrial bases, which is starting to occur. Australia will require its sea lanes to be secure and currently, the United States controls the world's oceans and Australia also shares a cultural affinity with the United States, making an alliance with the United States more practical than with China. However, maintaining a single focus with trade is not sustainable, especially with an authoritarian and expansionist country. 21st century China is like Germany, Russia or Japan in the first half of the 20th century, a large, industrialized, authoritarian state that stands to threaten the world order. Therefore, as you said in the video, diversification is key.

[@liam3104]

yea we export nearly all our food

[@cgrfc1]

Love australia spent a year there and loved it but it's too expensive everything costs a fortune, if I'm being completely honest it's a little bit boring but I would go back

[@penelopegreene]

In the 80's as students we actually spoke to this guy from The Rand Corporation in History Class. Don't know what the connection was. It was kinda unreal. He said, according to the programs they ran, China would try to gain hegemony over Canada and Australia. We just stared at him like he was an idiot. BUT NAO... o.O

[@penelopegreene]

@Peter Parker Dammit, I told you I want pictures of Spiderman!

[@Taurineg]

That guy was from the future

[@aymanplayzmc6326]

We??? *give me ur time travel machine*

[@Azoonaloc13]

It feels like it's too late for Australia. When it comes to our political issues everybody is just too self-centered and disinterested to care, years of easy living have made many of us soft and complacent, a recipe for collapse.

[@rootedurdadingoulburngaol1503]

Most people here don't care about politics since it's obvious there will never be a political solution anywhere in the world. Trust me mate, no one is in power unless their comprised or the usual suspect.

[@Azoonaloc13]

@@rootedurdadingoulburngaol1503 Yep, everyone is in on the sick joke, but nobody really cares enough to treat it as anything more.

[@spookypunky]

I feel like that here in the US.

[@_Cato_]

Azoonaloc13 Yeah, as a Yank, I can see that. Aussies have it easy, very little turmoil or hardship, and that doesn’t encourage the population to be politically active.

[@Hazeleyes26]

Enthios we don’t...

[@emiliant2]

It's Impressive how well this aged

[@cyberpunk.386]

Hey Wendover! Generally like your videos but here’s a misconception. To think that Australia wouldn’t be if not for the independence of the United States is one of those fallacies. Britain at the time was on a hunt for claiming as much land for the Crown as possible. Claim first and then let’s decide what to do with it. If anything, the independence of the US had taught Britain what not to do with its colonies, but not that they wouldn’t make further territorial claims. It was the time of the big land grabs.

[@boku955]

I agree definitely. We definitely weren't caused by the US

[@JohnWick-qr4yc]

@@boku955 of course you weren’t you were given your freedom and still are under the commonwealth we took ours and Britain is our puppet nation since WW2

[@boku955]

@@JohnWick-qr4yc John, to think Britain is the US' puppet nation is just about the dumbest thing ever. See what happens if Britain goes and sides with China, huh? Yeah, the US won't be able to stop it. To be honest the US can't even beat the EU. What the US is sadly yet to realise is that it's main power is it's allies.

[@jerryhu9005]

""If China's GDP contracted just 5%, Australia"s would fall by 2.5%" *Coronavirus:* "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

[@birdsnature6421]

china will still have positive growth rate in 2020, Australia is fine.

[@Teleportcom]

@@birdsnature6421 China is not going to be okay after 2020, and Australia will be fine.

[@birdsnature6421]

Teleport2.com fine with me , wish all the best for Australia

[@Teleportcom]

@@birdsnature6421 China is going back into isolation.

[@Teleportcom]

@@birdsnature6421 America is done with China too, and the Philippines, oh and the uk and Canada also, all Huawei technologies are banned in the western world and high tech chip manufacturers are banned from selling to China, crippling the Chinese tech industry. Stop pretending that everything is fine in China.

[@timothycook2917]

Americans: Gather your horses, oxen and wagons and go west, young man! Australians: Thank God for airplanes!

[@Jake-oz7rs]

Aeroplanes*

[@AsttoScott]

Burk and Wills Expedition in 1860 did exactly that except they chose to go up instead of across Australia. They died.

[@Azaelris]

@@Jake-oz7rs fuck off

[@ghnna]

@@Jake-oz7rs its ok. the americans can't spell anyways

[@gtc4189]

@@ghnna Don't the British spell the American variation of 'color' 'colour' and then proceed to pronounce it as 'kuh-luh'?

[@tomsear1]

as person who led the WeChat study on PM, I’m glad to see it used in context

[@DoctorJack16]

Thanks for this backdrop information. I’ve been wondering why there’s been increasing tension between China and Australia. This explains a lot.

[@soldatheero]

Australia clearly has much more in common with Canada than America.

[@shawnjavery]

I cringed so hard when he said that. Just because two countries were colonized by the British Empire doesn't mean they have much in common. The US geography played a huge role in its development and is fairly unique. It's more comparable to a place like France than Australia, since they both have river systems that lead to a strong sense of identity.

[@rogersmith1408]

Thats funny, because Canada and the US are amazingly the same. Driving down the road, you can't even tell the difference. It' could be another state! Ya, I know they are a common wealth and all that, but have you really been to both places? aside from a few political views.......I don't think you could tell if I dropped in in either country.

[@someone3445]

yeah like most people dont think austraila and canada exsit

[@markcash2]

@@shawnjavery River systems lead to a strong sense of identity?

[@shawnjavery]

@@markcash2 typically yes. When its easy to stay in touch with other people a stronger sense of identity tends to emerge

[@80KG_Costco_Chicken]

As it right now, Australia is having some arguements with China. I guess Wendover Prouctions do live in the future.

[@80KG_Costco_Chicken]

@Happy Thanos Really? China warned everyone and told everyone what to do. Yet western countries screwed up. They have those so-called "arguements" so they can shift people attentions from their incapability of dealing with the crisis. It is just a shame for all those countries. They have extra two months to prepare for this crisis. China was the first one hit by the virus, yet it only take less than two month to get everyone's life back to normal. And, if you don't like China as an example, check South Korea.

[@kittikorn6674]

@@80KG_Costco_Chicken they denied that corona can't spread to people in around late December and January

[@senseiadam-brawlstars9465]

@@80KG_Costco_Chicken 50 cents has been deposited to your account by the CCP.

[@meowzers1721]

@@kittikorn6674 china found the disease in december then found out that it was a new virus. they didn't care much cause they didn't think it was transmittable but then on january 23 they told the WHO and they found out that it was transmittable and shutdown the country

[@80KG_Costco_Chicken]

Kittikorn Tatar you can say this right now. But who understood this back in December?

[@ninbendo360]

04:38 um the road's go from sometimes 6 to 1 lane, depending how rural.

[@KlassicLoL]

0:50 tried to blur “Sidney” but it was too late

[@grantburnett2542]

“sidney“ i’m sorry, sam, we can’t protect you anymore

[@stevesteve7386]

Don't forget he pronounced it melbern when it is mel-bel Only god can save him now Edit: this thread is now an aussie thread 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@571lama]

Irregardless. . .

[@quasarsavage]

Lol, mad aussies!

[@matt_b...]

@@571lama firstly, he literally made my head explode. He thought he snuck it in there, but he madded us when we discovered it. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna watch a whole nother video.

[@user-uf3zw9jt1o]

USA: We are the king of the world forever. Anybody who want to challenge me is the bad guy

[@MrFakeHacker]

Australia:*has minerals* China: I’ll take your entire stock

[@kryts27]

Without a war. How clever :-)

[@MrFakeHacker]

I apologise I did not mean to offend you

[@nilesbutler8638]

@JIMI JAMES what the f*** are you trying to communicate? Ever heard of checking your texting for legibility?

[@newyorkerjoe123]

Speaking of which, why is Australia, a vast resourceful continent in Asia-Pacific, only a couple hundred miles away from South-East Asia had no Asian-Pacific Islanders in that vast land originally, historically inhabiting when Anglo pirates, some 10,000 miles away England, sailed half the world away, and looted in late 18th century? This doesn't make sense, since Asian-Pacific Islanders originally and historically inhabiting and residing in Pacific such as Guam, Tonga, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji and Hawaii? Speaking of New Zealand, why did these same Anglo pirates, sailed half way around the world and looted in late 18th century? Why didn't they occupy beautiful fertile Iceland, right above them just a short distant away, with hardly any people there? As a matter of fact, China has made no secret that it will one day help liberate the continent in Asia-Pacific it sees as rightfully belonging to people of Asia-Pacific. blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=711807

[@erinlee5936]

@@newyorkerjoe123 For one reason - natural resources. It's the same as any other European country. Asia Pacific has natural resources that Europe wanted but couldn't grow (like spices, for one). Is that what China is saying? They are the ones who will liberate Asia Pacific? Sounds like Imperial Japan's WWII propaganda. If anything, China will be the new colonists. They will colonize Asia Pacific and control all the natural resources to satisfy their growing demand. It's happening now and no one is doing anything to stop them.

[@johnhigginbotham2770]

CCP: “Trust us comrade, we have a reputation for honesty and fairness “

[@omkarupadhyay406]

Irony... Unlimited

[@metagde6402]

That trust literally brought Australia to better in every part of country from economy to avg income Must be quality trust then hahahahah

[@kommado7677]

@@metagde6402 Until we accidentally call Taiwan a country that is

[@louistan7560]

Australia doesn't have a China problem. China is neither the US, UK nor Japan. What will benefit Australia greatly is to accept where it is located and work to co-exist and cooperate in its self interest in the region. It can either be an "island" tied to its past or a "Continent" on its own trajectory unfettered by the geo-politics of the US and the UK. Unlike Canada led by a junior that is physically tied to the US it is thankfully locate far away.

[@TheDreamerintheStarlight]

Australia Definely has a China problem. They have faced multiple warnings from China and the Australian people disagree with Chinese Policies. Australia Can integrate itself to it’s neighbours but it wouldn’t really do anything. And the US can interfere with Australia. It has a massive naval presence and has a literal spy base in the middle of Australia. It can pretend like it can hold by itself but in reality it is heavily dependent on others.

[@CalllMeMouse]

Wendover: Video about Australia Lets release it an 4:30am. Australia: Thanks Wendover.

[@dozenazer1811]

I think because it’s more targeted for US and Europe (I’ve got 9pm in Moscow)

[@ttoppa]

Is it a race who gets to see it first?

[@LucasSanga]

Mate its 2:27am in Perth right now

[@dylanshadowstar9779]

@@LucasSanga almost 6am in Melbourne

[@konplayz]

DextroTV sleep then

[@josefsstationrc6064]

Australia: exists* China: its free real estate

[@disobedientavocado5959]

Anyone with more than $3 million dollars is granted free citizenship in Australia, let the whoring of the land begin.

[@maxrockatanksyOG]

Not really- we got sold the fuck out by our politicians

[@disobedientavocado5959]

@Chris Russell That's the beauty of it Chris, that $3 million buys you entry and all you pay is a small amount of business tax and you get to import foreign workers under a workers visa and ship profits and resources overseas. And people think Pimps are only on the corner flogging a women off for $100 an Hr, ha.

[@crf80fdarkdays]

@@disobedientavocado5959 I disagree with your last comment mate, very unaustralian..

[@alanbstard4]

@@disobedientavocado5959 any foreign student passing a course gets residency. Just wait for citizenship

[@janeteholmes]

The card the US got that we didn’t is the Mississippi River.

[@maximes.6959]

Interesting how at the end of the video it switches from an information video to a straight pay commercial for shopify

[@KDH-br6hy]

Lol

[@circuit10]

That’s how sponsorships work, it’s not really unusual

[@nicholaslokos7949]

So we can conclude that there are at least 4 people in Austrailia.

[@iggyblitz8739]

The two big cities Melb and Syd are pretty populated, actually to crowded now, many people leave the bigger cities to live less hectic lives to smaller cities / towns on the coast, seachange.

[@nicholaslokos7949]

@@iggyblitz8739 yeah, at least 1 person per city

[@nicholaslokos7949]

@Hyper Tube-Dale2006_D Welcome to the show!

[@kilo276]

Christine Lawrence r/whoooosh

[@nicholaslokos7949]

@@christinelawrence4315 bruh

[@stormysamreen7062]

Wendover: *does not include any airplanes in a video*. *"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined"*

[@liranpiade4499]

We got plenty of decent airports, he could've shown them! (They're not Changi or anything like that, but still!)

[@stormysamreen7062]

@@liranpiade4499 Of course, unlike Berlin...

[@chrisca]

This enraged his father, who punished him severely

[@erik_griswold]

Fun fact: both countries are highly dependent on air travel. And this video features aerial shots.

[@charesrandolph9211]

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[@djdanielross]

Dear America, nobody in Australia calls the outback the outback. Usually it's referred to by region or name of place. For example the Pilbara, the Kimberley, up north, down south, the bush, the sticks.

[@egg-iu3fe]

australia as a country basically is living on tutorial mode. population delivered straight from Britain, automatically makes them close allies with britain and america, extremely mineral rich, close to a huge growing country like china australia never really had to work for anything, which is why diversifying is so difficult

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Australia: *Has exports* China: _"Give me that"_

[@EeeLife]

Should be: "Sell me that". Your lines are giving the feeling that China didn't pay

[@arminius8838]

It's called capitalism.

[@nishunair1912]

@@red_boi9059 I'll take 33% of your entire stock :P

[@stijnhs]

@@EeeLife with political pressure you can be sure China got some better than good deals

[@aandwdabest]

Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun Australia: Oi mate Good Day, wanna buy some coal? China: Say Hello to my red purse!

[@colincopland3665]

Wendover: Australia’s China Problem Video comments: Wendover’s “Sidney” spelling problem

[@kamelkadri2843]

that's why china is taking over the world, low IQ and don't give a buck attitude, if the poeple watching this video are so dumb to only care about spelling ignoring everything they saw, what can you expect from the rest..... RIP freedom

[@garyoakham9723]

That’s why the democrats are so hell bent on impeaching trump. Darn that drumpf for putting tariff on the Chinese

[@gradyjustice4259]

If America is looking to have a non China trade deficit, trade heavily with Australia, if USA took chinas place there, relations politically are there, and then economically

[@veggiechip]

i didn’t know about this beforehand thanks

[@onik6512]

*china*- "you cant buy this house unless you've been a citizen here for 10 years, give up your native citizenship, have a chinese spouse and are patriotic to china" *Australia*- "you got fiddy bucks?"

[@youyadensi]

Well, it is really really hard to get citizenship of China. You can apply green card, but it is hard to apply as well.

[@argh2945]

Rui's Tips & VLog On the one hand I'm glad we live in 'open' and liberal societies in the West, but I think our openness will our undoing. It's becoming naive at this point. It's open to the point where our governments don't consider basic national priorities anymore. Any Western government that proposes slightly stricter citizenship or immigration rules, for example, (rules that were the norm 20 to 40 years ago) is branded as xenophobic.

[@pflernak]

@@argh2945 By not changing your views in 20 years youve become far right or whatnot.

[@argh2945]

nipi tiri Yeah, I'm not "progressive" enough. Proudly so actually.

[@holiday5774]

yes you get the point

[@joshpage4547]

While it might seem that mining and oil are the backbone of Australia. Our economy is held up by various other goods and services such as advanced medical practices, scientific firsts, blockbuster filming on the Gold Coast, and unique biodiversity suited for tourism. Agriculture and live-produce farming is also big in Australia, but is in decline with less young people interested in farming. And our confidence in housing as great investments could lead to stricter budgets (this is not so good). In summary, Australia is a haven of beautiful wildlife and beaches with abundant tree coverage in cities and valuable exports; but comes at the cost of geographical isolation, a young country, and other things.

[@tepoaaz]

Good thing I listened all the way through or I would have missed the use of the word “irregardless” lmao

[@optony9606]

I've lived here 37 years and from this economic growth, nothing has improved that wouldn't have improved without foreign help. We like slow development and low population and our corrupt Government is wrecking our country

[@seanwoods5943]

the Murray is dry.

[@achillesarmstrong9639]

Yeah, but if you live in France or italy you wouldn't think that way. We are quite lucky, and already enjoyed a lot of the improvment.

[@optony9606]

@@achillesarmstrong9639 I feel sorry for those countries inability not to prosper without. Unless you believe in the fake business model where you need continous growth and gain to not he considered a recession

[@SenorTucano]

Corrupt and useless as fk!

[@Raivere]

France is effed with Macron in power.

[@michaelhowell2326]

Is it safe to have "China" in the title? I thought it would be an automatic demonitisation.

[@nielsmichiels1939]

It seems to be like that nowadays.........

[@Dendroapsis]

Well I got no adds, but Wendover is heavily supported by sponsors, so I doubt he cares much.

[@ghnna]

#freedomofspeech

[@B0bb217]

@paul sticks okay Paul

[@Dygit]

paul sticks That you are Paul

[@megadick6000]

Well this aged well. Its honestly all in all a good thing the bandaid was ripped off. Looks like you'll need to make one about New Zealand next though.

[@jchan9761]

This has been an issue for a few years now. China has been asserting itself against the smaller countries it imports from.

[@metagde6402]

Man these countries fk with their customers and then cry that the customer hits back At this point china and Aus should de couple

[@thecringesaltawardcompany1818]

Australia is clearly more like Canada. And to say they got the same hand as America when much of our land in uninhabitable desert (when much of the American heartland is rich for farming and manufacturing) is laughable lol

[@tovsteh]

This video has aged well. COVID-19 will force Australia focus on more self-sustainability and move away from Chinese dependency. Note: The problem I have with China is its tyrannical government, not much else.

[@p4m209]

Yeah it’s getting a bit tense down here in that regard

[@SAOrules]

Funny I have a problem with China even existing at this point. It’s a threat to the entire world, and shouldn’t be allowed to exist.

[@tovsteh]

@@SAOrules They are a modern day super-power next to America. They need to be allowed to exist, but yes, I also see their government as a threat given how aggressive they are.

[@SAOrules]

toasteh would agree with you. But they’re government must be destroyed for their numerous crimes against humanity.

[@tovsteh]

@@SAOrules Yep, but any attempt at such would result in WW3. The Chinese are going to have to step up and fix this themselves, but their government arent making it easy for them (censorship, jailing/killing dissidents, spying, social credit system etc). China has to make the first move for the world to react or it aint gonna happen. What the west will do as thanks for the ramifications of Covid spread (and them hiding it) is just something we'll have to wait and see. I see many similarities to Soviet/Nazi germany in terms of how the CCP behaves.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

That "irregardless" at the end hurts my soul. :( This channel has some of the best writing on all of KZbin.

[@ensec6630]

it technically is just a nonstandard version of regardless but still :T

[@Sal3600]

@@ensec6630 no

[@Azaelris]

@@Sal3600 why y'all losing your shit over one word. Stop acting like toddlers and grow the fuck up

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@@ensec6630 It's a slip of the tongue that happens when people want to say regardless but have irrespective on the brain because the two words are used similarly. It's a speech mistake that is canonized in writing. :(

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@@Azaelris um

[@lordsleepyhead]

Pretty ironic that the economic and therefore political dependence on the USA that a huge number of countries have had during a large part of the 20th century has been regarded as a good thing in mainstream thought, but the minute a country has economic and therefore political dependence on a different county, that is immediately scary and dangerous!

[@McGoogger]

man your videos are so enticing i cant just choose one and stick to it i keep seeing other interesting videos by you lol

[@Sometimes_Happiness]

"If you owe the bank $100, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100 billion, you own the bank." Same story.

[@keanusw3369]

I guess...

[@pamelahomeyer748]

No that just makes you a trump for now. All that will change very soon especially when they find out that China is a big Financial bubble and most of the wealth is only on paper

[@iliketurtles2531]

Pamela Homeyer You're literally saying that for decades.

[@flipperbooch2194]

25% of comments: Australia joke 75% of comments: 11:05 “irrigardless”

[@nicholaslau3194]

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[@samuelb.9515]

Ahaha that was exactly what I was going to post! Despite a great video all around, the ending was sort of a funny flop.

[@therocinante3443]

Beat me to it. I trusted this channel....

[@airdailyx]

Yep!!! Lol!

[@rigatonithetiger9986]

Nicholas Lau disliked the comment to Australian like

[@bahiaanis331]

Hello thanx for the good work, if there's any transcripts?

[@lawwa615]

As a Chinese student in Australia, I got to say its true that gov. does have some effects on Chinese student community, mostly on Hongkong and Taiwan political issues, but i dont think there are spies watching over us. why do such a huge gov care and capable work so hard on a few students? Except they would do that on social media, i got to say that could totally happen.lol

[@impledob69]

I don't think they would have to work hard at all. It only takes some basic AI and facial recognition software to look through photos and social media posts and find out who you are, and what you're saying. Next thing you know your parents are being threatened to be sent to a camp with all the Tibetan people.

[@TheAmazingCowpig]

>sees title >sees uploader Hey, wait a minute, you're not PolyMatter...

[@danieltsiprun8080]

At the start i thought this was a video from china uncensored